WINTER EXHIBITION.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 238, 8 October 1928, Page 8

WINTER EXHIBITION.

DIVIDING THE PROCEEDS.

SUGGESTIONS FOR SAVING EXPENSE. i recipts from the last Auckland Winter Exhibition totalled £8483, the expenditure amounting to £6231. In A oi!? i A tlon . of P rofitß the Auckland M.im.f«M„l 88 ° C^ tlon . and the Auckland Manufacturers Association each take Zu»S™ t Zi£"°- H52 "» The annual report of the manaeers presented to the anSl meeting of the joint committee on Wednesda y.' 6ta te ß that the gate receipts were £200 less this year than in 1927 It was considered that this decrease was mainly due to a period of dull m w , ° f *WB. lithe question would fee asked "Whether the extra cost £150, warrants the continuation of the exhibit of high-grade buttetfat producing cows, which was an this year. . ; Practically ■ sum of £2700 —of the total Receipts of . the exhibition was expended in the cost of building additions, fittings; and charges incidental to the' rental of sheds. The opinion has been expressed that this stat'e of affairs calls for more conside-j ration of the proposal to secure permanent exhibition buildings. The managers have suggested that, in order to economise, it would be worth while considering' the .proposition to .cut out ther additional buildings to house exhibetween sheds on the wharves, and to , erect covered-in passage-ways for pedestrians only. Anticipations , are that' considerable expense would thus be saved. '